BALANITES

( Lat. balanus, a««cor«.) In Botany, acorn-barnacles, an order of Cirripeds, comprehending those which have a shelly tube, adherent by its base to foreign substances, and closed at its apex by four opercular valves. BAL A NO PHO RACE^. (Bal an on hora, one of the genera.) A natural order of Rhiganths, consisting of fungus-like parasitical plants, with small monoecious flowers collected in dense heads arranged upon fleshy receptacles. [s. 131]